Antimicrobial blue light inactivation of pathogenic microbes: State of the art

Y Wang, Y Wang, Y Wang, CK Murray… - Drug Resistance …, 2017 - Elsevier
As an innovative non-antibiotic approach, antimicrobial blue light in the spectrum of 400–
470 nm has demonstrated its intrinsic antimicrobial properties resulting from the presence of
endogenous photosensitizing chromophores in pathogenic microbes and, subsequently, its
promise as a counteracter of antibiotic resistance. Since we published our last review of
antimicrobial blue light in 2012, there have been a substantial number of new studies
reported in this area. Here we provide an updated overview of the findings from the new …